Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

steelmed.com

SteelMed | Leader in commercial and custom industrial sheet and in steel coils.

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

163 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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SteelMed sells industrial sheet and steel coils, which through longitudinal and transverse cutting produces strips and sheets in commercial and custom format.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Steelmed.com page load time and found that the first response time was 163 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

steelmed.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.1 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

steelmed.com

163 ms

www.steelmed.com

405 ms

modernizr.custom.js

69 ms

bootstrap.min.css

210 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

206 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (141 requests) were addressed to the original Steelmed.com, 1% (2 requests) were made to Oss.maxcdn.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Steelmed.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 430.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

9.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Steelmed.com main page is 10.1 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 9.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 105.5 kB
  • After minification 86.0 kB
  • After compression 19.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.5 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 85.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 240.8 kB

  • Original 9.4 MB
  • After minification 9.2 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Steel Med images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.5 kB

  • Original 480.9 kB
  • After minification 480.8 kB
  • After compression 469.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 92.2 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 99.1 kB
  • After compression 44.9 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Steelmed.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (22%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

116

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Steel Med. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

steelmed.com accessibility score

91

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

steelmed.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

steelmed.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    ES

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Steelmed.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed Spanish language. Our system also found out that Steelmed.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Steel Med. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: